Tuesday, December 26, 2017
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Monday, December 25, 2017
HOW TO PRAY WITH PRAYER POINTS.: Why Is Prayer So Difficult?...How To Get Your Pray...
HOW TO PRAY WITH PRAYER POINTS.: Why Is Prayer So Difficult?...How To Get Your Pray...: WHY IS PRAYER SO DIFFICULT....HOW TO GET YOUR PRAYER LIFE . I grew up in church, but I never learned how to pray. At that church, prayer ...
Why Is Prayer So Difficult?...How To Get Your Prayer Life.
WHY IS PRAYER SO DIFFICULT....HOW TO GET YOUR PRAYER LIFE.
I grew up in church, but I never learned how to pray. At that church, prayer was a ritual of memorized chants and 90-second moments of silence to throw in your own two cents. I never really gave much thought to what I was saying. Because when you memorize, you don’t have to think. You just do what you already know to do. No thought needed.
Suffice it to say there was no learning how to pray. Not in the way that I think of prayer now. It wasn’t a conversation with God. It was lip service to God. It wasn’t necessarily heartfelt. Honestly, it was mind-numbing. Literally, my mind would go blank because the memory muscles would kick in. I wasn’t praying to God.
I was an autopilot with God.
I never understood the power of prayer until I made a Spirit-led transition to seek God beyond what religion offered. Beyond the chanting and the memorizing and the two cents. I desired to speak to Him directly, but never knew how.
I remember attending a women’s small group one night, where I had this eerie feeling that someone was going to ask me to pray. And I had never prayed before out loud. So I was horrified when this new group of women that I’ve known for two seconds asked me to pray. Out loud. I had been found out.
I wasn’t a real Christian because I didn’t know how to pray.
At least that’s how I felt. I thought…How can I do something that I don’t know how to do? How can I be expected to pray in public when I barely pray in private? How am I supposed to come up with this sophisticated, eloquent prayer right on the spot when I haven’t practiced memorizing typical prayer talk?
Prayer is difficult when you don’t know how to pray.
Devote yourselves to prayer
Colossians 4:2a CSB
Paul commends the Church to devote time to prayer, not just here in Colossians, but throughout the Epistles.
Jesus prayed often throughout the books of the Gospel, whether to heal sick or to avoid the cup.
David’s Psalms aren’t just songs of worship. They are prayers to his Heavenly Father.
What is it that they understood that I’m missing? Why were they so into prayer? And why is it so difficult for me to pray?
Because it’s full of power.
The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
James 5:16b CSB
I have mixed feelings about power.
Power can be used to oppress or uplift. Power can be used to devour or heal. Power can be dangerous or divine.
Prayer is difficult because it holds power.
And honestly, I’m afraid of what that power has the potential to do.
I’ve never thought of myself as a powerful person, so it’s no wonder why I’ve never considered becoming a prayer warrior. With prayer, movement happens. Change is inevitable. Prayer works because it shifts the scale of power by the favor and will of God. Prayer means change, and change can be scary.
I wish I could say that my prayer life is amazing. It’s not. It’s still a work in progress. It will be until the day of Christ. I’ve settled into that revelation, but that doesn’t excuse me from settling into a lackluster life of mediocre prayer. I desire to have deeper dialogue with God. But it all starts with learning how to pray and developing a different mindset towards prayer.
What struggles do you have in your prayer life? What have you noticed holds you back from a life devoted to prayer? Share your revelations below.
This post, Why is Prayer so Difficult?, is part of a series, How to Get Your Prayer Life, to help us strengthen our relationship with God by the dynamic opportunity to communicate directly with the Creator of all things.
How To Overcome Setback With Prayers From The Holy Bible And Enjoy Unending Season Of Celebration.
HOW TO OVERCOME SETBACK WITH PRAYERS FROM THE HOLY BIBLE AND ENJOY UNENDING SEASON OF CELEBRATION.
To have or experience setback reveals that the devil or enemy is aware of God's plan for your given life. Setback is a function of delay or hindrance set up to resisist divine way of help and blessing, hence you need power of prayers to conquer setback.
Setback can be expressed as a situation or condition which puts you at the disadvantage of progress. No destiny is safe with setback. Glory though ordained to be great cannot shine with setback. Death is even nearer when setback persists. The end of a life or thing is not far from its setback. Remember, that any situation that holds you to a spot will bring your life to a setback.
To conquer setback you need prayer. To conquer setback you need understanding and knowledge of how prayer works. To conquer setback, you need to rebuke the spirit of setback in your life, business,marriage or ministry so as to experience undeniable progress and true happiness that will put you among enviable great people in the society. Can you pray this prayers?
PRAYERS:
1. Setback is not my portion in the name of Jesus. I prophesy daily progress to my life with exceeding Celebration of wealth and riches, divine uplifts, divine miracles and unprecedented breakthroughs in the name of Jesus.
2. Today, I rebuked and destroy the power raised against my life to set me backward in the name of Jesus. Claim this prayers t yourself and God will empower you with enviable progress which will enable you to recover all that you have lost to setback in the name of Jesus.
You are blessed. Amen
To have or experience setback reveals that the devil or enemy is aware of God's plan for your given life. Setback is a function of delay or hindrance set up to resisist divine way of help and blessing, hence you need power of prayers to conquer setback.
Setback can be expressed as a situation or condition which puts you at the disadvantage of progress. No destiny is safe with setback. Glory though ordained to be great cannot shine with setback. Death is even nearer when setback persists. The end of a life or thing is not far from its setback. Remember, that any situation that holds you to a spot will bring your life to a setback.
To conquer setback you need prayer. To conquer setback you need understanding and knowledge of how prayer works. To conquer setback, you need to rebuke the spirit of setback in your life, business,marriage or ministry so as to experience undeniable progress and true happiness that will put you among enviable great people in the society. Can you pray this prayers?
PRAYERS:
1. Setback is not my portion in the name of Jesus. I prophesy daily progress to my life with exceeding Celebration of wealth and riches, divine uplifts, divine miracles and unprecedented breakthroughs in the name of Jesus.
2. Today, I rebuked and destroy the power raised against my life to set me backward in the name of Jesus. Claim this prayers t yourself and God will empower you with enviable progress which will enable you to recover all that you have lost to setback in the name of Jesus.
You are blessed. Amen
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